Consumer Bankruptcy

Consumer Workshop IV: It’s About You: Mental Health, Professionalism and Burnout

Consumer Workshop III: Cleaning It Up: Messy Chapter 7s

Consumer Workshop II: Family First: Bankruptcy and Family Law

Consumer Workshop I: Let the Winning Continue: Getting to Confirmation

Technicalities Insulated a Lawyer from Liability for Misusing an IOLA

A creditor lost a dischargeability suit by failing to call the right witnesses to prove that a lawyer’s trust account was used to hide assets.

A Prior BAP Opinion Is Virtually Binding on a Later BAP Panel

A later First Circuit BAP panel should follow BAP authority unless the prior opinion seems “dead wrong.”

So You Want to Be a Ch. 7 Trustee?

March 2020

Fifth Circuit Stretches Equitable Notions to Bend Plain Language

A nonprecedential opinion applies Fifth Circuit authority to achieve a result that’s equitable for the debtor and creditors, and maybe also for a personal injury defendant.